Sourdough Discard Focaccia Recipe (Vegan, Egg Free, Dairy Free)
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This Sourdough Vegan Focaccia Bread Recipe Is:
- Simple
- Herby
- Light
- Floral
- Hearty
- Vegan, vegetarian, dairy free, egg free
The Best Sourdough Discard Focaccia Bread Recipe
This sourdough discard focaccia recipe is a fantastic pantry-staple meal! It uses almost all ingredients you would have in your dry pantry or cupboards – most of which you probably have on hand. Keeping a well-stocked pantry makes it easy to come up with delicious meals using a few staples you can rotate.
I made a list of my Top 125 Plant-Based Pantry Staples that always keep stocked. And you can check out all my favorite pantry staple ingredients in my Amazon shop here. By stocking up on whole ingredients you can cook delicious recipes without a trip to the bakery!
What’s In This Sourdough Starter Focaccia Bread Recipe?
Be sure to visit the recipe card below for full ingredient amounts and recipe instructions!
- Sourdough Starter Discard: you can buy sourdough starter here, or I have a great guide on how to make your own in one week!
- All Purpose Flour: I normally use all purpose flour for all my recipes, I love the consistency and texture of the crumb this flour produces. If you want to keep it a little wholesome, you can use half whole wheat flour as well.
- Pink Himalayan Sea Salt
- Agave Syrup: I really like using this raw organic agave syrup which is ridiculously inexpensive online!
- Water
- Extra virgin olive oil
Vegan Focaccia With Sourdough Starter Discard
This Vegan Sourdough Focaccia recipe is the perfect way to use your sourdough discard from a starter. I hate throwing out food (or rather, composting it!)- so I’m always looking for ways to reuse kitchen scraps to cut back on waste.
Instead of tossing your discard when you feed your sourdough starter, try this awesome recipe instead. I have a whole page on my site for recipes that use sourdough discard. That way you can add a hint of sourdough flavor to your baked goods, and cut back on food waste.
What Baking Equipment Do I Need for this Sourdough Discard Focaccia Recipe?
- I use this extra large silicon baking mat to prep all my dough on. It’s super simple to use and easy to clean up (and doesn’t get flour all over your counters, highly recommended. There are a lot of baking mats, but this one is the largest I could find (2 x 3 feet!) and keeps the counters mess free… I absolutely love it!
- I’m all about hand-kneading, but I find that using this adjusted-measure rolling pin works particularly well. I like this rolling pin, which allows you to roll to the exact thickness you want. That way, you have nice even focaccia with the same dough thickness in each bite!
- For this focaccia, I like to use a simple baking sheet lined with parchment paper so the bread don’t stick. It’s super important to make sure you use parchment paper and not wax paper!
- I’ve also compiled a list of my favorite sourdough baking equipment here on Amazon!
How Do I Make Focaccia With Sourdough Starter Discard?
- In a large bowl, mix the sourdough starter, flour, salt, water, agave syrup, and 1 tablespoon olive oil. dough should be thick and sticky. Cover with a tea towel and allow to rise for 9 to 12 hours overnight in a warm draft-free space.
- On a sheet pan, pour 1 tablespoon olive oil over dough on top and stretch the dough into a rectangle. Pour remaining olive oil on top of the dough. Cover with plastic wrap and allow to rise again for 2 more hours.
- Preheat oven to 425 degrees Fahrenheit. Stretch the dough out to the sides of the sheet pan. Place your fingers down into the dough, making even dimples.
- Bake for 22 to 25 minutes, until golden brown on top. Brunch finished bread with a little olive oil, salt, or rosemary. Mangia!
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Sourdough Discard Focaccia (Egg Free/Vegan)
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup sourdough starter discard
- 4 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon Sea Salt
- 1 tablespoon agave nectar
- 1 1/2 warm water
- 3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil divided
Instructions
- In a large bowl, mix the sourdough starter, flour, salt, water, agave syrup, and 1 tablespoon olive oil. doigh should be thick and sticky. Cover with a tea towel and allow to rise for 9 to 12 hours overnight in a warm draft-free space.
- On a sheet pan, pour 1 tablespoon olive oil.sprrad dough on top and stretch into a rectangle. Pour remaining olive oil on top of the dough. Cover with plastic wrap and allow to rise again for 2 more hours.
- Preheat oven to 425 degrees Fahrenheit. Stretch the dough out to the sides of the sheet pan. Place your fingers down into the dough, making even dimples.
- Bake for 22 to 25 minutes, until golden brown on top. Brunch finished bread with a little olive oil, salt, or rosemary. Mangia!
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Always looking for good discard recipes and this is one. I sprinkled with rosemary, sea salt, pepper and more olive oil before I baked it and it came out delicious as well. Thanks for the recipe.
Yummy
Can I sub the agave syrup for honey?
Hi Elizabeth – Yes, you can try that. I haven’t baked the focaccia with honey, but if you do please let me know how it turns out and I can make it a note of it in the recipe card.
Thanks! Kelly
I appreciate that you’re not in the allergy game, but as an individual with a baby that is, I find your recipe misleading. Don’t label it gluten free/allergen free and then use sourdough starter that has the things we’re avoiding in them. I wasted 20 minutes reading your post with hopes of a food I can eat only to find that your recipe is mislabeled. Most are online, but as someone who’s never had issues and now can’t eat anything because of a baby who’d be sick all night/for weeks until it’s out of our systems-please change your title.
Hello Holly – I am a little confused, the title says egg and dairy free. Not gluten or allergy free. There is no mention that this is a gluten or allergy-friendly recipe anywhere in the post. There is gluten in the flour and in the sourdough starter. Searching for “gluten free focaccia” online may help you narrow down your results for your family’s specific needs, if that is what you are looking for. If this recipe came up in your search results, then it may be a search engine error and not an error with the title or recipe.
All the best,
Kelly
This came out amazingly and was so easy!
Thank you Cassandra, really glad you enjoyed this focaccia!
– Kelly
Thanks for sharing! Does it keep long?
I can’t wait to try this! Does it work with most flavored oils?
This looks so good! What a great to still enjoy some bread & oil while sticking to the good stuff!